This Product Designer position for our Ecosystem stage group is 100% remote.

A brief overview:

GitLab is building an open source, single application for the entire software development lifecycle—from project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

We started 2019 with a team of 15 Product Designers and Researchers. Right now, we’re in a period of growth, we’re more than doubling the size of the Product Design team, and we’re increasing the number of GitLab employees to over 1000 this financial year, too.

At GitLab, we live and breathe open source principles. This means our entire handbook is online, and with a few clicks, you can find the details of future releases, check out our past releases, and see an overview of the product vision you’d contribute to when working here.

As a Product Designer at GitLab, you will be embedded in our Ecosystem stage group. It’s a technical area, where you’ll be tasked with improving the experience of integrating third-party services into the GitLab product and enable our users to improve their workflow by leveraging external tools within their GitLab instance.

What you can expect in a Product Designer, Ecosystem role at GitLab:

• You’ll make the experience of using GitLab better by enabling our users to effortlessly sync the plugins and external tools they use to improve their workflow.

• You work will allow third-parties to integrate their services with the GitLab product

• You'll work alongside Product Managers to define and shape how our product integrates with these external services, what other integrations should be on our roadmap, and which tools we should prioritize integrating with to make the experience of using GitLab even better.

• You’ll work alongside UX Researchers, Product Managers, other Product Designers, and Engineers to iterate on new user journeys within the GitLab product.

• You’ll utilize wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, hi-fidelity visual designs, or any other artifacts you believe are necessary to convey your design thinking and ideas

• You’ll engage with our user base and the wider GitLab community to understand their pain points and work toward long-term fixes that enable them to succeed with their goals.

• You’ll undertake usability testing to validate your thinking, collaborate with our UX Researchers on generative research, and you’ll share findings with the wider team in our research repo, ensuring recommendations are communicated effectively across our organization.

• You’ll contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team, and the GitLab community as a whole.

Projects you might work on in our Ecosystem stage group:

• You’ll spend your time collaborating with a cross-functional team, helping build out integrations, utilize external APIS, and better the workflows of our users by enabling them to leverage their favorite tools. You’ll also contribute to our Pajamas design system.

You should apply if:

• You’ve got experience designing developer tooling or complex web applications that are built for highly-technical users.

• You’ve got some experience working as a Product Designer on project management software, internal tooling, workflow management software, or you’ve got experience integrating third-party tools into an existing platform

• You’ve got experience working on product strategy and product design for a complex enterprise application or SaaS tool.

• You enjoy getting involved in research and usability testing, and you continually look to improve your user research abilities.

• You want to design for a complex product with technical users who have continually evolving needs.

• You’ve got a portfolio of work that shows us your product design skills across user research, UX strategy, wireframing, prototyping, product strategy, and visual design, within a complex domain.

• The idea of playing a key part in the evolution of our Pajamas Design System is truly exciting to you.

• You understand frontend code or the limitations of frontend technology. You can demonstrate this through your hands-on coding skills with HTML/CSS/JS, or by showing us you have a deep understanding of the needs of engineers you’ve worked with previously.

• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.